This bachelor assignment emphasizes the differences between the Waldorf school (Steinerskulen) and the public school in Norway. Therefore, my thesis question is the following:

What are the biggest differences between the Waldorf school and the public school?

As a method, I have used a document analysis, which is a kind of qualitative method. The theory I have used is a combination of the school’s curriculum, books, and articles written by people who have a lot of knowledge and experience in the schools. Using my theory, I have defined three hypotheses about what I think seems to be the biggest differences of the two schools:

1. “The Waldorf school have a clearer fundamental ideology than the public school”

2. “The teachers in the Waldorf school has more freedom than the teachers in the public school”

3. “In the Waldorf school, the esthetics has a larger focus than in the public school”

Based on relevant theory, I have analyzed and discussed the hypotheses. Overall, I found support for all of them, but I chose to have a closer look at the one about esthetics. Here, I found that during the last decade, the practical and esthetic subjects have been prioritized less than it maybe should, which does not seem to have good consequences for our future.